Food & agriculture – Jan 28
UK Soil Assn: Preparing for a post-peak oil food and farming future (Podcasts)
Soil Assn considers sanctions on air freight
Michael Pollard essay: “Unhappy Meals”
Food
Why life after oil will be better
The UK’s Soil Association conference, titled “One Planet Agriculture: Preparing for a post-peak oil food and farming future,” aimed to kick-start the discussion on what practical measures farmers, consumers and local communities can take to become less energy reliant. The conference was the most over-subscribed in its history.
Food & agriculture – Jan 26
O, pioneers in Pasadena (urban homesteading)
Heinberg predicts a local food renaissance
BBC: Eat like an ape, get healthy
British supermarkets going green
Deconstructing dinner: thought for food
Food or fuel in future?
Banana drama
Declining oil reserves will impact hugely on energy prices and the way we eat and farm. Is Britain ready for a new agri-culture?
U.S. and biofuels – Jan 24
Contradictions seen in alternative energy plan
Ethanol production booming on demand
WaPo: Blindness on biofuels
Springtime for ethanol
Am I romanticizing poverty?
Sharon Astyk is one of us in the peak oil movement who advocates relocalisation and self sufficiency. Is this vision based on a romantic notion?
Patrick Holden on Peak Oil and the Transition Towns concept
Soil Association director Patrick Holden in interview says, “I believe that localism and cellular, from the ground up activity will be the defining impulse of 21st century agriculture.”
Biofuels – Jan 21
Mexico feeling effects of ethanol boom
Corn soars, Mexico sets price limits
Analysts predict ethanol to power higher grain prices
Mexico caps tortilla price
Sweet dreams (local ethanol with sweet potatoes)
The unknown unknowns
With each doubling of knowledge, we get a doubling of ignorance.
China – Jan 20
China to get tough on green design
Will 2007 be China’s Year of Gasoline imports?
China starts thinking ‘alternative energy’
US farming disaster: a prediction for China?
Ethanol Q & A
We received so much e-mail about last week’s article on using corn to produce ethanol that I was actually humming the whiskey-drinking Georgia Tech fight song to myself.
Food & agriculture – Jan 17
Monster bunnies For North Korea
Astyk: Agricultural efficiency?
Can organic farming save us from climate change?
